Five summers ago, MIPA coordinators awarded the first MIPA Cup. Since then, classes have spent their week at MIPA competing to bring honor and glory to themselves, their classes and their schools. MIPA Cup coordinator Sara-Beth Badalamente said she has several activities for students to participate in to win points. She said students should be sure to sign in at each activity … [Read more...] about MIPA Cup: a breakdown of how to win it
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Infographics students work with Adobe Illustrator
During the Illustrator and Information Graphics class, students learned the basics of how to work with Adobe Illustrator by making bar graphs. According to instructor Karl Gude, today and the rest of this week students will have learned all the different parts of Adobe Illustrator and how to make different graphs, charts and maps. Additionally, he said, they will learn how to … [Read more...] about Infographics students work with Adobe Illustrator
MIPA class works to help ‘boost’ student publications
Website Boostcamp instructor Natalie Sekicky said her goal is to acquaint the students with templates and help them add new elements to their websites. She said she also wants to help them to refine features of their publications. Sekicky said one of the main focuses of the class is to help the students make their publication the most accurate, yet timely it can be. She said … [Read more...] about MIPA class works to help ‘boost’ student publications
Students in Bobby Hawthorne Experience get increasingly more challenging projects
The Bobby Hawthorne Experience is set apart from other offered courses at MIPA, as it is taught at a faster pace in an advanced journalistic setting. Hawthorne, the author of the journalism textbook The Radical Write and a MIPA veteran, said he eases his students into increasingly challenging techniques as the week goes on. “So far we’ve covered finding stories and voice and … [Read more...] about Students in Bobby Hawthorne Experience get increasingly more challenging projects
News editors implement change through leadership
Dean Hume, a veteran MIPA instructor, is back this year to teach newspaper editors how to guide their staffs to success. Hume spent Monday morning’s session getting the students to list the problems they faced with newspapers and staff and plans on developing solutions to the common problems throughout the week. “Most of [the students] are use to thinking like journalist; … [Read more...] about News editors implement change through leadership